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hello there! I am one woman army in the Philippines . It started when I was looking for a DIY leather watch strap for my Apple Watch ended up watching how to make wallets and stuffs. 

Since then, everyday I looked up YouTube to watch leathercrafting, and decided to make my own leather goods. It was difficult to find tools from local store, I tried my luck searching online and fortunately found starter tools. Imagine buying and waiting 3 weeks for that.

Fast forward to more than a year, here I am growing my small business of small leather goods. Attached are few of my works.Hope you appreciate my works! All made with TLC :D 100% handmade

I want to try making bags too!

Facebook: https://m.facebook.com/kdotcrafts2017

YouTube: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCmkHHDavyCdK8babSXAwHGg

Instagram :kdotcrafts

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P.S.

I still hasn't made my own watch strap lol

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Congratulations on turning one of your passions into a business.  I hear that the Philippines is a difficult place to find leather and leather crafting tools but, from what I see here and on Instagram, there are many talented artists.  

Keep up the good work and best wishes on growing your brand. 

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4 minutes ago, Webicons said:

Congratulations on turning one of your passions into a business.  I hear that the Philippines is a difficult place to find leather and leather crafting tools but, from what I see here and on Instagram, there are many talented artists.  

Keep up the good work and best wishes on growing your brand. 

Yes, there is certain place that sells bunch of leather but thats too far from my area. It's sad but life goes on. Lol

Thank you!

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My homemade leather balm and the test result. It is not 100% waterproof, but gives you enough time to wipe water you spilled. ;)

Contains beeswax, carnauba wax, coconut oil and almond oil. 

There are many recipe online, it is up to you which you follow. There are more better recipe, but in my case, this is just my resources. 

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Welcome to the forum, and congratulations on turning your hobby into a business

Your standard of work is very good, especially the sewing, but I have a couple of points - 

I can't quite tell from all of the pictures, but have you considered burnishing the edges?

And if you don't mind telling us, what sort of thread do you use, please?

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@zuludog hello. Yes, I burnish the edges when I use vegetable tanned. I'm still practicing it on chrome tanned though, I have difficulty applying it.

And the thread I use is a regular waxed thread that I buy locally. 1mm which is the only available. 

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I've been thinking alot about making a watchstrap out of snakeskin. A fellow leathercrafter gave me a scrap enough to make it. IMG_20180611_13844.thumb.jpg.4f18d8be9d2f6f4a30a3ba337875804a.jpg

I am not good in making the pattern for it, that would actually fits my wrist but thought I should give it a try. 

After few hours, it's done and here's the finished product.. let me know what you think. :)

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That strap turned out very nice!  Keep up the good work.

Gary

Cowboy 4500, Consew 206RB-4

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